Adam Brown

and he'd had a father who had been in the military but he'd kind of had a difficult relationship with and ended up going and visiting his father's grave in in baton rouge never having done that in the 20 years since his since his father died but just as this sort of turned i mean he just was driving along expecting to go home and then just turned into the sort of spiritual quest for him so you know stuff like that can be pretty gratifying uh it's also sort of cheating you're not

in my way of thinking about it meant to be taking people out of their way like they're meant to be going where they're going and you go with them and they take you no further but in this case i think he he needed to go uh there so that was good for him did you stay in contact with any of the people typically no and i would almost consider it um poor form to do so but um actually there was um

There was one lady who came to stay in New York later and she was going down to Haiti to sort of be a doctor there.

She was a doctor and so I stayed in contact with her a bit.

But typically, it's just the nature of the interaction is that you have this sort of beautiful moment in time together and then that's it.

I think it used to be very common in the United States.

It's still reasonably common in Europe.

It used to be very common in the United States, and then there were some mass murderers who drove the popularity down by targeting hitchhikers.

Maybe this is just pure cope.

In my mind, you need to worry about that less because if you are a mass murderer, it's really, you know, serial killer, it's not really a high expected value strategy to cruise around looking for hitchhikers since there's so few of them.

But that might just be pure cope in my head.

I've never refused a ride for safety grounds, but I would.

I hope I would if necessary.

Sometimes you would refuse a ride because somebody's only going a short distance and you're in a good hitchhiking spot.

It's kind of bad karma to refuse a ride, but sometimes you should do that.

Other tips.

Don't write your exact destination on your sign.

Write the sort of direction in which you're going.

The reason is maybe twofold.

One, a lot of people, if they're heading towards that place but not going to that place...